This inscription is dated in the twenty-fifth year of Ko-Rājarāja-Rājakesarivarman, alias Rājarāja-deva. It states, that the king “built a jewel-like hall at Kāndaḷūr,” and then gives a list of the countries, which he is said to have conquered. Among them Veṅgai-nāḍu is the well-known country of Veṅgī; Gaṅga-pāḍi and Nuḷambapāḍi are found on Mr. Rice's Map of Mysore;Mysore Inscriptions, p. lxxxiv. Kuḍamalai-nāḍu, “the western hillcountry,” is Coorg; Kollam is Quilon; Kaliṅgam is the country between the Godāvarī and Mahānadī rivers; Īṛa-maṇḍalam is Ceylon; Iraṭṭa-pāḍi is the Western Chālukyan empire;See the introduction of No. 67, below. and the Śeṛiyas are the Pāṇḍyas. I have been unable to identify Taḍigaipāḍi.

Sir Walter Elliot's and Dr. Burnell's tentative lists of Choḷa kingsCoins of Southern India, p. 131; South-Indian Palaeography, 2nd edition, p. 40. contain a king Rājarāja, who reigned from 1023 to 1064 A.D. These figures rest on three Eastern Chalukya grants, of which two have since been published by Mr. Fleet and one has been edited and translated above (No. 39). From these three grants it appears, that the Rājarāja, who reigned from Śaka 944 to 985, was not a Choḷa king, but a king of Veṅgī, and that his insertion in the list of Choḷa kings was nothing but a mistake.

The historical portion of the subjoined inscription is almost identical with lines 166 to 173 of the large Leyden grantDr. Burgess' Archaeological Survey of Southern India, Vol. IV, p. 204. and must belong to the same king. The Leyden grant states that Rājarāja conquered Satyāśraya (line 65). This name was borne as a surname by no less than six of the carlier Western Chalukya kings and was also the name of one of the later Western Chālukyas. From certain unpublished inscriptions of the Tanjore Temple it can be safely inferred, that Rājarāja-deva was the predecessor of Rājendra-Choḷadeva, the enemy of the Western Chālukya king Jayasiṁha III., who ruled from about Śaka 944 to about 964.See the introduction of No. 67, below. Hence the Satyāśraya mentioned in the Leyden grant might be identified with the Western Chālukya king Satyāśraya II., who ruled from Śaka 919 to about 930;Mr. Fleet's Kanarese Dynasties, p. 42. and the Choḷa king Rājarāja, who issued the large Leyden grant and the inscriptions Nos. 40, 41 and 66 of the present volume, with that Rājarāja of the Sūryavaṁśa, whose daughter Kūndavā was married to the Eastern Chalukya king Vimalāditya,Indian Antiquary, Vol. XIV, p. 50. who reigned from Śaka 937 (?) to 944. As Rājarāja-deva boasts in his inscriptions of having conquered Veṅgai-nāḍu, the country of the Eastern Chalukyas, this marriage was probably a forced one and the result of his conquest of Vimalāditya.See the remarks of Dr. Burnell, S. I. Palaeography, 2nd edition, p. 22, note. The identification of the Rājarāja-deva of the Leyden grant and of Nos. 40, 41 and 66 with the father of Kūndavā is confirmed by the Koṅgu Chronicle, where some of his charities are placed in Śaka 926.Madras Journal, Vol. XIV, Part I, p. 17. The Koṅgu Chronicle further suggests the probability of identifying Kāndaḷūr, where Rājarāja-deva built a hall (śālā), with Chidambaram, as it records that “he enlarged the temples at Chidambaram and erected all kinds of towers, walls, maṇḍapas, flights of steps, etc., and other matters.”

From this and the next-following inscription we learn that Māmallapuram belonged to Āmūr-nāḍu,Instead of Āmūr-nāḍu, the present inscription uses the term “the fifty (villages called after) Pudukkuḍaiyāṉ Ekadhīra,” which occurs also in lines 32 f. of No. 41. a division of Āmūr-koṭṭam, and that the name of the Shore Temple was Jalaśayana. The purport of the inscription is a new division of the land of the town of Māmallapuram, which had been agreed upon by the citizens.